About this project

$36,652

pledged of $18,000 goal

714

backers

Update On Our Goal (5-4-14)

We've met our initial goal! The way that folks have mobilized around this campaign is powerful and inspiring. Thank you. It speaks to the importance of sharing an ecological worldview with others. Let’s keep this momentum going with a new goal of $45,000.

Raising $45,000 will allow us to grow our team and to work with other creatives on the transcoding, editing, coloring, sound design, promotion, and distribution. It will ensure the best and farthest reaching version of Inhabit. Let’s see what’s possible with this campaign and let’s propagate the promise of permaculture while we’re at it! Thanks!

Why A Film About Permaculture?

Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and well-being of our planet? This is the premise behind permaculture: a design process based on the replication of patterns found in nature.

Permaculture is a road map for the redesign of human systems. It calls for a culture that acts in harmony with the forces of nature and it says "let's design an agriculture that increases the quality of life for all beings, and let’s achieve the same through our social, economic, and political systems."

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective

Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture. It presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what's possible - what kind of projects and solutions are already underway. For those unfamiliar, it will be an introduction to a new way of being and a new way of relating to the Earth. For everyone, it will be a reminder that humans are capable of being planetary healing forces.

Focused mostly on the Northeastern and Midwestern regions of the United States, Inhabit provides an intimate look at permaculture peoples and practices. During the Spring, Summer, and Fall of 2013, we documented over 20 sites in a range of rural, suburban, and urban environments. We explored a breadth of response to local and global challenges from issues of food, water, and medicine, to governance, economy, and culture.

We Need Support For Post-Production!

At the end of 2013 we wrapped principal photography, capturing over 100 hours of footage. Now we're looking for help from the Kickstarter community to make the telling of this story possible.

Post-Production costs include:

Editing

Color Correction / Sound Mixing

Original Music Score

Publishing

Submitting to Festivals

Marketing / PR

Distribution

To cover these costs, we need a minimum of $18,000. This money will allow us to work with a composer and to dedicate ourselves more completely to the success of this project.

Because of the way Kickstarter works, we must raise our complete goal of $18,000 to receive any funding, so your contribution is crucial for this to succeed.

Featured In The Film

Our enormous thanks to the individuals below. Each person featured in this film represents the cutting edge of permaculture thought and practice.

Risks and challenges

Post-production involves many steps: from transcoding and organizing footage, to editing, animating, coloring, composing, finalizing, submitting to festivals, and distributing. Due to the creative needs of each process, there is always a chance that our intended release date will be pushed back. We have been working passionately on this project for over two years, though, and will be putting our best effort into finishing it as impactfully and efficiently as possible.

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Pledge $500 or more
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SITE CONSULTATION: receive a 1-hour skype site consultation with one of these professional designers: Andrew Faust of The Center for Bioregional Living, Kay Cafasso of Sowing Solutions, and Steve Whitman of Resilience Planning & Design! Pick their brains for advice and direction on your property and projects! + rough cut screening + soundtrack + signed DVD + digital copy + hi-res photos!

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Pledge $1,000 or more
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JOIN OUR TEAM: FINANCING PRODUCER - Please join our team as a "Financing Producer." Your name, or the name of your organization, will be credited on screen and on IMDB. You and a guest are invited to a rough cut screening. Your input will help us shape the final story + soundtrack + signed DVD + digital copy + hi-res photos!

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Pledge $2,500 or more
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JOIN OUR TEAM: CO-PRODUCER + ECO-VILLAGE WEEKEND
Please join our team as a "Co-Producer." Your name, or the name of your organization, will be credited on screen and on IMDB. You and a Guest are invited to a 3 day retreat at Sirius Community (a permaculture eco-village in Massachusetts). You will get to sit in on a PDC taught by Kay Cafasso in July, and join in on a tour of permaculture sites in Western, MA. Food and housing is covered, travel is not + rough cut screening + soundtrack + signed DVD + digital copy + hi-res photos!

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Pledge $5,000 or more
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JOIN OUR TEAM: CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: This is the highest level of affiliation with 'Inhabit.' Join our team as a "Co-Executive Producer" and you will receive two VIP Tickets to attend the film's World Premier festival screening. Your name, or the name of your organization, will appear in the opening credits of the film and on IMDB. You will also receive 10 signed DVDs. Sirius Community retreat and PDC sit in + rough cut screening + Soundtrack + Signed DVD + digital copy + hi-res photos! Thank you so many times over!